What used to be right is now left

“The whole of American politics has shifted so far to the right in the last 50 years that what used to be thought of as conservative, what used to be thought of as a conservative position, is now considered to be off-the-charts lefty,” says Rachel Maddow in Alternet.

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That is what happens when politics takes on the mantle of doctrinaire absolutism that is so common in many of our religious institutions. When simplistic slogans supporting a mythical view of our history becomes sacred, we cross a very dangerous line. When such an event happens because it was nurtured to serve a power elite (in our case obscene wealth) it becomes tyranny. Tyranny does not get defeated by giving it a seat at the table and an equal voice, because the second it gets the chance, it will turn on you and bite you like a snake. We have already been bitten and it is now necessary to excise the poison before it destroys what we were supposed to think is our potential and the high minded creatures our evolution could produce, if we don’t throw it away foolishly.